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Favourite celebrity power couples

In homage to Valentine’s Day here’s our Top 10 celebrity couples that despite scandal, salacious gossip and the scrutiny of life in the limelight, remain loved-up in the public eye.

Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale

Hitting a decade of marriage in Tinseltown is no easy feat. After 16 years together, despite their ups and downs and long stints apart, the couple are “happier than ever,” announced the No Doubt songstress on Instagram last month, as she revealed the impending birth of their third son.

Favourite celebrity power couples

In homage to Valentine's Day here's our Top 10 celebrity couples that despite scandal, salacious gossip and the scrutiny of life in the limelight, remain loved-up in the public eye. Photo: Instagram

Ellen and Portia

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The world’s favourite talk show host, Ellen Degeneres and her Aussie actress wife Portia de Rossi married in 2008, since then they’ve become the poster couple for the LBGT community and remained strong in their union, despite rumours as early as last week surfacing over an alleged $220 million divorce. These ladies laugh it off and continue to be one of our favourite celebrity couples.

Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady

She is a supermodel and he has won three Super Bowls – this smoking hot couple brought home a combined $80 million last year cashing in on their beauty, brains and brawn…

Making them the second richest celebrity couple. Gisele remains the highest paid supermodel in the world partly thanks her line of thongs with Grendene and other endorsements, while Brady continues to play for the New England Patriots and lend his name to a bunch of brands including Ugg.

Brangelina

When the world’s sexiest man hooks up with the world’s sexiest woman, you get Brangelina. Despite the rumour mill this couple has stayed together since falling for each other on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith in 2003.

Constantly causing speculation about their impending nuptials these hands-on parents to six kids they’re Hollywood’s most powerful acting, directing and philanthropic duo and we're still hoping they will officially tie the knot this year.

Michelle and Barack Obama

This political powerhouse has always been open about how they’ve worked to keep their marriage strong. In 1989, Barack took Michelle on a date, to an Art Museum, followed by a Spike Lee film and the rest was history.

In the years that followed they over came the challenges of a long distance relationship and life in American politics. This couple is known as much for their PDA as their political policies and have become one of the world’s favourite first families.

Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso

He’s an Oscar winning actor and she’s a girl from Argentina… their love story could be a Hollywood rom-com. Luciana met her superstar hubby working as a single mum behind a bar in Miami. Married two years later, Damon became stepfather to her daughter Alexia and the couple have 3 daughters of their own.

Just last week during promo for ‘The Monuments Men’, Damon said, “When I was in my twenties, I wondered if I’d ever be able to settle down. But I found the right person and it was like getting struck by lightning — literally, everything changed in my life. My life is so much easier because of my wife and my marriage. Everything makes sense.”

Mr and Mrs Carter

This musical mega-match came out the world when they performed “Crazy in Love” at the MTV Video Music awards back in 2003. Both savvy business minds and performers in their own right, together they were the highest earning celebrity couple of 2013, pulling in over $95 million, according to Forbes. We can only wait to see what this dynamic double act have planned for 2014.

Posh and Becks

“My wife picked me out of a soccer sticker book. And I chose her off the telly... It felt straight away like we'd always been meant to be together," wrote Beckham in his autobiography.

The golden boy of soccer asked for a meeting with one fifth of the world’s hottest girl band. A year later he proposed and we’ll never forget the lavish ceremony these celebrity lovers put on in 1999. Since then they have had 4 children, built their own and collective empires, survived scandals, relocations and retirement and seem happier than ever!

Kimye

She is famous for simply being famous and he is more famous for his idiotic behaviour versus his talent… So it’s no surprise that this is a match made in hedonistic heaven.

Currently these two are planning what will be the wedding of the year in Paris, this May to be filmed for Kim’s show. The twosome plan to honeymoon in Venice without daughter North, who by orders of the Kayne will remain in Paris with her nannies, while he and Kim go South-East and maybe even add a South or East to their brood.

William and Kate

Their love story is straight from the pages of a fairy tale, he was the handsome king to be and she was an ordinary girl. Starting out as classmates and ‘just good friends’ they began their courtship in late 2003, separated in 2007 and then rekindled their romance in 2008.

Announcing their engagement in 2010, the world became obsessed with the stunning Duchess of Cambridge to be, especially when they made it official on her wedding day in her Alexander McQueen gown.

Their pregnancy had the media in a frenzy and the birth of their first son George had the world waiting with bated breath. We fell in love all over again with this cute, modern Mr and Mrs. These two lovebirds bought romance back to the Royal Family and take the crown as our favourite celebrity couple.